Evidence: | [Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, that she did them the Honour to put them in her Pocket-Book, and I never thought more of them.
About four years after this, making a visit to Baron [italics] Wainwright[end italics]'s Lady, she told me she had got a very pretty Poem from [italics] London [end italics], wrote by the Lord Chancellor [italics] Talbot[end italics]'s Daughter, a young Lady of but twelve Years of Age, and desir'd I would read them for the Good of the Company; but how great was my Surprise, to find they were the above Lines! however I went thro' my task, and Mrs [italics] Wainwright [end italics] ask'd my Opinion of them, and seem'd impatient at my Silence' [Pilkington then tells how she managed to convey diplomatically that they were hers, saying she'd seen them four years before, whereupon] the Baron said, that he also remember'd them, and that he was told by the Person he saw them with, that they were writ by a very young Girl, who was married to a clergyman in [italics] Ireland [end italics]...' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | From: 1 Jan 1732 | ||||||||||
Country: | Ireland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Dublin specific address: William St |
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Reader: | Laetitia Pilkington |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1708 |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | clergyman's wife |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | Ireland |
Country of experience: | Ireland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Baron and Mrs wainwright and others |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Laetitia Pilkington |
Title: | Paper |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ read at home of the Wainwrights |
Record ID: | 19849 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Laetitia Pilkington | |
Editor: | A.C. Elias | |
Title: | Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington | |
Place of Publication: | Athens GA | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 46 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 46, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19849, accessed: 03 October 2023 |
Date of birth was 1708 or 1709. The Ms was presumably not Pilkington's own, copies rather having circulated. |
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